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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	civil_a	judge_n	law_n	2,710	5	5.1476	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51011	Mr. Ashton's ghost to his late companion in the Tower		1691 (1691)	Wing M2257A; ESTC R16704	5,575	4

to make us so in this I expected far different discourse from the Ghost of Major Ashton M. Ash I was just telling you what Converted me The very FIRST STEP that I made into the Infernal Regions before my body was well covered in St. Faiths whither I expect shortly to have any Tomb stone worn as deep with the knees of those good Catholicks who come to adore my Heretical Dust as St. Patricks Well or the Marbles before the Shrine of Thomas a Becket But who shou'd I see there but the Protomartyr of the Cause poor Cross who was Hang'd 'tother day and show'd us what we must all come to for nothing but a little Voyage that he made aboard the French Fleet when they lay upon our Coast last Summer He had about him the whole Rabble of Devils at his first Arrival and looks exactly like a Pick-Pocket when fallen into the clutches of their mortal Mob However they were civiler to him then those wou'd have been above Ground and gave him Law for his Life hurrying him away before Judg Aedeus who was then trying Causes at Pluto's Court where appeared at least a thousand Witneses against him summoned by his own Conscience and two or three false Loons of Devils who first tempted him to sin and afterwards discovered him all these gave their Affidavits that he endeavoured to betray his Country and Corresponded with its inveterate and declared Enemies and upon the clear proof of the whole he was immediately Sentenced to be cast into the same Copper where Judas Herostratin Guy Faux Tarperia and all the odious Traytors to their Country or Friends are to be tortured till a Ja●bite loves the Protestant Religion and hates the King of France and his own good Godfather your L p may easily guess how much this Allarm'd me I immediately fell a trembling and 't was well I was nothing but Spirit for had I been still chained to a Body something not very pleasant about me had certainly betray'd me If this Fool of a Rogu● has such hard treatment what thought I am I to expect if once the truth is known to these grim Justices On the whole I e'ne thought it the wisest way to step to the Bar of my own accord where falling on my knees I e'ne fairly confessed the whole Fact before any one accused me● that I with several other false Traytors had Conspired to overturn and destroy my own Country and Government and that this poor wretch just then Condemned had a much less share in the Villany then I my self had L. P Was this the way to obtain any Mitigation or wou'd it not rather make you fare worse than he that went before you M. Ash There was no other Remedy I knew 't was but broyling for't at last But besides I found out an Expedient which got me at least a Reprieve whatever may become of a Pardon I Humbly proposed to the Judges who lookt much more angry upon me then those at the Old Eaily that I 'd return agen to Life and perswade those Persons who were concerned with me in the same Villanies to abandon their Cursed designs and discover all they knew ou●t giving my Parole of Honour to come back agen as soon as I had accomplished my Errand This wrought so much on the Sooty-Faced Gentlemen that I obtain'd leave and accordingly the first Persons I address my self to is your L p both upon account of the past intimacy which has been between us and because it may conduce very much to the Mitigation of my Torments if I can take off so 〈◊〉 able a Person as your L p f●●m that cause which I am like to Suffer so much for in tother World as well as this L. P. You tell me wonders but 't is still a greater to me how Hell comes to be so angry with our design or why as our Predecessors in the Gunpowder Plot used to say Satan discovered what we were about or is since so mightily concerned at it since had the Grand Lewis powr'd his Army in as we had proposed those below had undoubtedly receiv'd whole Legions of Souls every day crouding down to e'm from every part of the Conquered Nation M. Ash Notwithslansling all this they fear the examples and tho they love Treason very well I find they hate the Traytor as much as any of our mortal Politician● For shou'd those who live under so happy a Government as the English at present enjoy say they among themselves once Rebel against it and bring in the French to torment enslave and destroy them if once they accomplish their design all Europe it undoubtedly their own and in that as good as all the world when once the ●rand 〈◊〉 is Vniversal M●●arch of the upper World ten to one but hee 'll h●ve such a Freak come into his Head as Alexander the Great had and have a Months mind for a Touch at the other World when he has conquer'd all his own and among these ours lies most open to his attempts both because he 's now very old and Sinfull and not likely to stay long above before he gives us a visit and makes his last Campaign amongst us and because his Luidores have already made him such a party here by the help of his many Agents which are come● it her before him that Lucifer himself would hardly be safe in his Throne but be daily in danger of Abdication and being the last conqust to the French Arms and Policies L. P. What course then wou'd you advise me to take in order tomy own happiness and yours You know several Gentlemen of my acquaintance and yours will not be flack to tell me I must certainly have School Butter in 'tother World if I tell Tales our of School in this and o' 'tother side dare pawn their own Souls for mine that if I hold right to the Scaffold my Soul shall be in Paradice as soon as my Head leaps off from my Shoulders M. Ash 'T is at your Liberty to believe them or me as your L p thinks fit But to be free the Question lies thus whether you can expect Heaven for endeavouring to Ruin Earth and whether 't is so Meritorious a ti●ing as some pretend whatever they think to 〈…〉 Native 〈…〉 bar●●● 〈…〉 or 〈◊〉 〈…〉 L p 〈◊〉 a Passion for 〈◊〉 〈…〉 in the 〈◊〉 di●●●●ged my 〈…〉 like a Ghost of Honour In the 〈…〉 I 'll about the rest of my E●●bissie and see 〈…〉 I shall meet with among the remainder of my 〈◊〉 Friends L. P. If common Interests and Dangers have any Power I conjure you by them to stay a Minute longer and resolve me 2 or 3 very material Questions M. Ash We don't forget every thing as soon as our Moths are cold and therefore if I 'm not forbidden by the Laws of the dark Kingdom I 'll give you all the satisfaction I 'm able L. P. My first Query is which will be out first this Year the French Fleet or the English M. Ash In that my L your Memoires have fail'd you The dilligence of the Government and readiness of the Seamen the encouragement of the Proclamation Reforming Officers and Kicking Old Grizzel out of doors have brought matters into so good a posture that the Fleet is now in better Order then 't was last Year by May and whereas your Judgment was 't wou'd not be out before Ju●● you 'll certainly see a great part on 't ready before the end of this Month. L. P. How did Mr. Reading and Mrs. Reading receive the News of our disappointment our Factors being broken our being nonsuited in our Law business and the Lord of the Mannors sitting faster and being more lov'd and fear'd th●n ever you know my meaning for you are no stranger to this Language M. Ash Mr. Reading was almost in as bad a condition as his Grandfather used to be 〈◊〉 poor Mrs. Reading was in ten times more fright and pain then at her last Lying In. L. P. One word more and I 've done shall I save my Life or must I follow ●●n M. Ash Ask your L y that th●● you your self know whether you can or will do any thing to deserve it But my time is past I must to the rest Adue FINIS LONDON printed for T. Axe 1691